The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-05
SOUTHERN oLEANlN6s.

Of the City Hospital was destroyed, as
was also tho dormitory of the Baptist
College. In Nidalia, the Methodist
Church, the engine-house aud several
smaller buildings were blown down. The
damage from the storm was great, but
there was no loss of life.
Hamdcn Fuqua, son OF J. A. Fuqua, Of
Greensboro, Ky. swallowed tin bird
call few days ago which passed through
the windpipc and lodged IN the upper por.
tion Of his lungs. The local physi clans
exhausted their skill in attempts to dis
lodge the whistle. but every thing short
Of an operation failed. DR.. Roberts, of
Louisville, was telegraphed for, and an
operation was performed. The boys chest
was opened and the whistle located. but
all efforts TO remove il were futile. The
boy viii die.
The trial of cN state Treasurer Vincent
oil Alabama, charged with cmbczz.rm"Gj
in thirty-ninc cases. has been continued
until the July tern, of The Circuit Court at
Montgomery Owing to the absence of
NJ. duncan Crawford, an important state
witness. who is i'll and confined to his
bed, a continuance was asked by counsel
for the prosecution aud Judge Arlington
granted il. Vincent and his counsel an
nounced ready for trial, but finally agreed
to the continuance.
Mrs. Beckwth, wife Of RI. Rev }. ".
Bcckwith. Bishop Of Georgia, died in At
lanta fnw days ago.
The negro, Albert Robert Robinson, who
was to be hanged at Tyler, Tex, May -
died a few nights ago.
Three children Of J. T. Hall were left
alone in the house near BOnham. Tex, I
few DAYS sirtc. The house was burned
and MI perlshcl
The committee in charge Of the dccora.
ton Of the graves os Federal soldiers ut
the National Cemetery, near Nashville
Tom, mas inv ted Senator sherman +" dc
liver the Grafton. Should he decline,
Governor Foraker OF Ohio wall be asked
10 speak,
4 reception was rendered 10 Miss Win
ME Davis, daughter OF jefferson Davis,
by the citizens of Chattanooga at the Stan
ton Hotel a few nights ago. Over five
hundred invitations were issued, and the
reception was attended by the leading cit.
liens of the city Miss Davis will return
to her home in Beanvcr this week
Governor Gordon of Georgia is suffe ring
acuttlt from an attack of intercDstal
neuralgia which Frustrated him while de-
hveIing his address before the COME
ate Survivors association ut Augusta.
Colonel fhnizv, to whose house he was
taken, says that al hpugh Governor Cor
don was suffering from the effects OF
he was not cons idcred In any
great danger.
Grenada, Miss, was thrown into con.
siderable excitement few days age
when CAPTAIN w. d. Fowler. of that city
a travelling salesman for Schmidt Il Zeg
Ter. of New Orleans. shot and fatally
wounded Rev. G. F. Stivers, of the Epis
copal Church. The shooting occurred il
Fowler's own house. The cause is noi
known, az neither party have said any
thing about The affair. Stivers, expecting
70 die, made a confession in which he
stated that the shooting was iustifablc.
and he did not want Captain Fowler pan.
ished.
Louisville whisky men have SUBSCRIBE
- .0c to fight prohibition in Texas.
Hot Springs, Ark, has been making the
gambling element, who mfest that valley
"a thick as il it is said fildlers are in
hades, mark time" SO disgustllgly con
tinuously for the past week or two, That
they are pouring out Of tOT Il like rats
leaving a sinking shi,.
/ little ghl aged about five wears. the
daughter Of Ezra jenkins, of Henderson,
Ky :ril into an old cistern and was
drowned few days ago. The little one
was wandering around while her mother
was picking greens for dinner.
Forty-thrce thousand halee of cotton
have been compressed and shipped from
%atksUr, Tenn, the past season. Thirty
thousand dollars have been subscribed by
the citizens to ala in building cotton fac
tory in that city,
Fints Cover, a cousin OF Frank and
jesse James. of Missouri, has been con.
vIcted in the United States Circuit Court
at Nashville. Tenn Of robbng the mails
hotWcer laWrenccburg and Waynesboro
He was given two years in the Natiora
prison al Albany, y. y.
Abe LittlcjOhn, wpll-to-do white farm.
er, and wife, living near Clinton, Ala,
were burned in their dive ling few night.
ago. Subsequent Investigations lead tC
the ccn"lus ion that the aged couple were
murdered and the dwelling burned over
the dead bodies to conceal the crime.
W. L. Hockaday, a travelling man EN-.
plOycd By the house of GoOdbar, Love &
Co, Of Memphis, Tenn. attCM pied suicide
a few DAYS ago by taking belladonna.
Standing 81 the rear door of the firms
place CT business, he suddenly ra scd
vial 10 his lips. and exclaiming: III be
a dead man in twenty minutes ~ drank
the contents. Medical aid was summoned
and he was brought around after severa
hours Of agony.
JnO Tagert, Jr.. who lives in the north.
west part of Morris County, Tex, started
a few days ago with a load of cotton
to his farm. when it is supposed that his
team became frightened and ran away,
throwing him from the wage against
tree, killing him instantly, An old free l.
man, who heard the team running, went &c
him Immediately, but when he reached
him Tagert was breathing his last
A young Hebrew stock trader, together
with horse he had just purchased, was
drowned in Salt river, near West Point,
KY, few days ago, while endeavoring tc
ford the swollen stream. His body was
recovered by some farmers who witnessed
the accident.
The Bishops of the colOred Methodist
Epis copal Church met last week at Nash.
VILE, Tenn. and arranged their plan Of
episcopal visitation for the present year.
Atlanta, ga, was selected for the next
meeting of the Bishops
Right Rev. Chas. b, GALLOWAY, of Mis-.
slSSlppi, one OIL the BlShop5 OF the VI. r.
Church, South, has declared him self in
favor of local option as a step toward
constitutional prohibition, and says that
if he had time lie would canvass the State
of Texas in favor of prohibition.
Picnics are in season in Georgia.
Rev, John b. McFerrin, D. D., bool;
agent of the Southern Methodist Publish
ing House. IS dangerously i'll at his resi-
in, /
Gently recovered from a long and severe
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